Cyber Assurance Contracts

Cyber Assurance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cyber Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 660 842
Rank change year-on-year +73 +182 -110
Contract jobs citing Cyber Assurance 7 37 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.067% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.074% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 15
10th Percentile £266 £500 £455
25th Percentile £488 £544 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +35.29%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £625
90th Percentile £644 £725 £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £276 £650 £563
% change year-on-year -57.57% +15.56% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cyber Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,161 49,793 79,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.16% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,765 34,463 55,606
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,583 1,678 1,849
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -

Cyber Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cyber Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Assurance in the UK

Cyber Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Assurance.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Assurance in the UK

Cyber Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Assurance over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Assurance in the UK

Cyber Assurance
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Assurance within the UK over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +80 6 £575 -5.19% 10
Work from Home +85 5 £575 -11.54% 9
London +73 4 £575 -2.13% 2
UK excluding London +32 3 £276 -57.57% 12
South East +16 2 £475 -38.71% 5
Scotland +33 1 £77 -87.98% 4

Cyber Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Information Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Subject Matter Expert
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) NHS
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) CSOC
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Information Assurance
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) Risk Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Security Management
4 2 (28.57%) Antivirus Management
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Information Management
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
5 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
5 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (14.29%) Scorecard
5 1 (14.29%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CRISC
2 1 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GRC
1 3 (42.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 3 (42.86%) NCSC
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (14.29%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft